Considering the great advances regarding the diagnosis and treatment of peritonitis and with respect to the prevalence of patients with primary peritonitis referred to hospitals affiliated to Shiraz university of Medical sciences, this study was performed to evaluate the predisposing and prognostic factors of this condition in children during the years 1982-1992 The descriptive protocol of thi...

In the past, most patients with multiple myeloma (MM) died within 5 to 10 years after diagnosis. Within the past decade, several new therapeutic interventions have been introduced, including autologous stem-cell transplantation, thalidomide, lenalidomide, and bortezomib. We estimated trends in age-specific 5- and 10-year relative survival of patients with MM in the United States from 1990-1992 ...

The process of reforming health care systems was initiated in several industrialized countries for more than two decades ago, but so far, we have limited knowledge of the outcome of the reforms. The present study was designed to research institutional changes as a result of changes in financial reallocation. The research question was: how does a change from horizontal to vertical financial real...

Colon cancer represents a major public health issue. The aim of the SUDCAN collaborative study was to compare the net survival from colon cancer between six European Latin countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland) and provide trends in net survival and dynamics of the excess mortality rates up to 5 years after diagnosis. The data were extracted from the EUROCARE-5 dat...

Methods Retrospective cohort study (n = 9092) of patients aged between 17-98 years, admitted to SASH ICU between Dec 1992-Dec 2014 were categorised into out-of-hours (17:0008:00) or in-hours (08:00-17:00) admission. Mortality rates in each group were calculated. Elective surgical admissions were excluded. Statistical Analysis: Categorical data, analysed using Fisher’s, Chi-Square and 2 × 2 cont...

In the past, most patients with multiple myeloma (MM) died within 5 to 10 years after diagnosis. Within the past decade, several new therapeutic interventions have been introduced, including autologous stem-cell transplantation, thalidomide, lenalidomide, and bortezomib. We estimated trends in age-specific 5and 10-year relative survival of patients with MM in the United States from 1990-1992 to...

This study describes the effects of the introduction of universal infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in 2006 on invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) among children and adults in Germany with a focus on the dynamics of serotype distribution in vaccinated and non-vaccinated age groups. Over a period of 22 years (1992-2014), microbiological diagnostic laboratories from all over Germany have ...

In October 1994, a retrospective study of mortality of children was conducted in Maringué, a district of central Mozambique. Estimates based on maternity histories of 1503 women aged 15-60 years revealed complex changes in the under-5 death rate. During the colonial period (1955-1974), mortality declined from 373 to 270 per 1000. During the civil war period (1975-1991), mortality increased rapi...

Reaching the optimal dentist to population ratio is a common health policy challenge around the world, but while many countries have too few dentists for their populations, Greece is facing the opposite problem. This study was designed to describe and analyze trends in the number and distribution of dentists in Greece over the last thirty years and compare the Greek dentist to population ratio ...